by Mike Jourard | Feb 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
Most of my film ideas come to me in my dreams. I keep a little file of all these ideas. So far, the list has 37 items. Every time I come up with a new idea, very often in my dreams while I’m sleeping, I add it to the list. Then whenever I’m looking for a...
by Mike Jourard | Feb 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
When I was barely a teenager, my Grade 8 Teacher showed us the films of Norman McLaren, an absolutely amazing and ground-breaking experimental filmmaker working for the National Film Board of Canada. From that moment on, I was hooked: *I* wanted to make movies, too!...
by Mike Jourard | Jan 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Officially, he doesn’t have a name. (Yet? Perhaps we can call him “Rip van Michael”?) Patterned after Rip van Winkle, he represents the dormant passion for movies that I’ve carried with me for most of my lifetime, now awakened. (The image is my...
by Mike Jourard | Jan 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the website for 50 Year Dream Productions Inc. The company gets its name from the fact that I’ve been wanting to make movies since I was a teenager, and now that I’ve retired from my “Day Job”, I am able to turn that dream into a...
